President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Services with his wife first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and his wife Karen Pence, at the National Cathedral, on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
On his first full day of being President of the United States of America, as women on all seven continents rallied against him, Donald J. Trump attended a morning prayer service at the National Cathedral. And he also maybe took a little nap during it, as evidenced in the video below:
Did Trump just fall asleep in church? pic.twitter.com/gmYWadsuO4
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) January 21, 2017
The day-after-the-inauguration interfaith prayer service is a tradition that dates back to George Washington, according to ABC News. This morning, prayers were led by 26 spiritual leaders from myriad faiths and denominations, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. According to Christianity Today, headliners included the granddaughter of Billy Graham (Graham’s son, anti-LGBTQ evangelist Franklin Graham, participated in yesterday’s pageantries) and Dr. Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., who had previously endorsed Trump. We can only begin to imagine how pissed many of the other Kings must be at Alveda right now.
One would normally expect the leader of the free world to at least feign attention during the service as a simple matter of respect, but your new president has never been one for keeping with expectations! Instead, he chose to switch things up by (possibly?) catching up on a little much deserved shut eye during the service. Or maybe, they just weren’t reading from his favorite book from the Bible—Two Corinthians.
Twitter, needless to say, had some thoughts:
Its the prayer service. Is it me or is trump sleep? ??????????? i cant hahahahahaha dis man falling asleep LMMFAO!!!!
— PETEROCK.COM (@PeteRock) January 21, 2017
Donald Trump looks like he is sleeping off and on during National Prayer Service ¡! #nationalprayer
— Candy69 (@imabme24_7) January 21, 2017
When you have to go to youtube to live stream because @CNN thinks trump basically sleeping is more important then the #WomansMarch pic.twitter.com/XayUpL2dF8
— Andrea Carolina (@Drizzy__dreaa) January 21, 2017
Trump looks bored out of his skull. He also looks like he’s sleeping. pic.twitter.com/FIQJEBJsyi
— Claire Gendel (@Clairetastic) January 21, 2017
Trump at the National Prayer Service , he didn’t get no nappy nap time awww!!!!
— Science Kingpin (@geminigod) January 21, 2017